{"id":205244,"date":"2025-08-22T17:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-growth-failing-to-deliver-jobs-world-bank-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:34:25","slug":"ghanas-growth-failing-to-deliver-jobs-world-bank-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-growth-failing-to-deliver-jobs-world-bank-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Growth Failing to Deliver Jobs, World Bank Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The World Bank has raised concern that Ghana&#8217;s economic expansion over the past decade has not translated into sufficient job creation, warning that the gap between growth and employment threatens the country&#8217;s development prospects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In its latest Ghana Economic Update, the World Bank noted that while the economy recorded steady growth between 2012 and 2023, net employment rose by only 250,000 despite a 2.7 million increase in the working-age population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The report, titled &#8220;Addressing Labour&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220443.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has raised concern that Ghana&#8217;s economic expansion over the past decade has not translated into sufficient job creation, warning that the gap between growth and employment threatens the country&#8217;s development prospects. In its latest Ghana Economic Update, the World Bank noted that while the economy recorded steady growth between 2012 and 2023, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7089,6126,21944,4509,8226,6641,6643,257,254,6853,5093],"class_list":["post-205244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-deliver","tag-failing","tag-ghana-news","tag-growth","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}